[plug] Advice needed for laptop

[Adam Ashley]

I'd suggest checking out www.computercybershop.com.au store is near
megamart in the city.

I got an ASUS 5200N from there at the beginning of the year, ultra
portable, wireless, and it comes with two batteries one about 2.5hr long
and the other 5hrs long and those times are accurate.

As to linux support I run Gentoo on it full time with a 2.6.5 kernel and
everything works perfectly. Well mostly it is a centrino so ndiswrapper
is needed atm for wireless but it works fine. I also havent bothered
figuring out the memory card reader as I dont have any cards for it.

My father also got an ASUS M2 which is bigger but with a longer battery
life (7hrs standard). He only runs windows but I have used knoppix on it
without any problems.

The reason I mentioned cybershop is they will do salary sacrifice which
makes it much cheaper.

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:17, Richard Meyer wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi guys, I'm in the market for a decent laptop.
> 
> I've looked through linuxlaptop.com, but there doesn't seem to be any
> discussion about how well particular lappies work with linux.
> Linuxlaptop.org and .net are worse than useless, just pushing hosting and
> domain names.
> 
> I have my eye on the Toshiba A10 at the moment (the price is nearly right)
> - I would like any feedback from people who have lappies working with linux
> as to what they have, how well it works, and whether they'd buy it again in
> hindsight. Any comments on the A10 would also be helpful. The pedlar
> (salesman) at the Toshiba place is quite happy that I take in a Knoppix CD
> and try it.
> 
> Thanks
> RichardM
> 
> 
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